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TIL that insurgents in Iraq used the geotags from pictures posted to the Internet by soldiers to target and destroy 4 Apache attack helicopters on the ground

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yQg9V TIL Pharma Bro Martin Skrelli's $2mil Wu Tang album was seized by US Federal Courts following his fraud conviction
9Y9BB TIL that at a 1976 Amsterdam chess tournament, Soviet grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi politely asked an English competitor how to spell the words "political asylum." He then went straight to a police station and announced that he wished to defect.
VQdk TIL that elite US soldiers actually climbed 95 foot cliffs under Point Du Hoc to capture and destroy key German strongholds during the D-Day assault June 6, 1944. They then held their position for two days suffering 65% casualties.
x6jro TIL Shops often play music with a slower tempo to encourage customers to move more slowly through the store, thus spending more time looking at products and increasing the likelihood of making a purchase.
9Yo8r TIL that One Ton of air conditioning is the amount of heat needed to melt 2000 pounds of ice in 24 hours. Before 1902, Ice Delivery companies measured the amount of cooling a space needed in “Tons of Ice”, and this terminology has carried through to today